P.C. Shyamshankar

My name's Shyam, and I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins
University. My research is focused on bringing database and programming languages
technqiues together to create more intelligent compilers for large-scale data processing
systems.

I can be found during most reasonable times, in Malone Hall on Homewood Campus, room 255.
Alternatively, I can be reached by email.

This is my academic page; you can find my resumé here. I also maintain a personal webpage here.

K3

I work primarily on K3, a high-level language for writing distributed data processing
pipelines. K3 provides programming abstractions for specializing systems using workload-
and deployment-specific information, all the way from algorithm design to low-level
memory layouts.

Apart from being a research project, the K3 toolchain is also a veritable software
engineering effort. The K3 compiler is 30K lines of Haskell code, and K3 programs are
supported by a 3K LOC C++ runtime. If you're interested, you can find all of it on GitHub.

Projects

Apart from K3, I've been involved in several different projects, including: